All Your Chrome Easter Eggs Are Belong to Us – A Full List (2020)

Google has hidden a ton of Chrome easter eggs up its sneaky, robotic sleeve. And you’re about to see ‘em all in one list.

Woot!

Google was probably programmed by a bunch of hardcore nerds (kind of like you and I), that left a lot of hidden objects within Chrome OS and other platforms, including their own search engine.

This makes sense, as most gamers would show their passion for video games in their work. Many top websites do the same thing and have little easter eggs here and there.

Google has a ton of them. They reference the best video game era ever (the 1990s, hands down) with memes and even “expressions” that the browser indirectly implies for your nerdy side’s pleasure.

In this complete list, you’ll find all of the Chrome Easter eggs it has to offer.

Try them all out for yourself and have a Chrome-filled party. What does that mean? I have no idea. Who cares?

Last updated: 1/24/20. I’m constantly updating this as more discoveries are found so you get the most complete list on the whole interwebs. Oh yas.

The newest Easter eggs in the World of Chrome

Note that as the platform updates, this list may change or may get outdated.

I’ll constantly update it when necessary to ensure that you get all the latest offerings and hidden secrets it has hidden away.

Some of these Easter eggs also apply to more than just the web browser only, as they work on other platforms as well. They’re more like tricks that you can do to impress your friends (or yourself).

Go through the list and see what tempts you. And then try it. Get amused. And then try another.

Anyway, here’s the full list of ’em!

See ALL the things in one sweet list.

Do a barrel roll!

One of the most popular and well-known tricks. You don’t need anything special to perform this one. You may have already seen this trick by accident.

This one’s my personal favorite and one of the most popular Google memes.

What it does: Chrome will literally “do a barrel roll” right in front of your screen- before your very eyes.

How to do it: Go to Google and type in “do a barrel roll.” As you finish typing it in, your screen will do a 360-degree screen rotation.

Google will literally do a barrel roll if you tell it to. It’s a popular Easter egg and is also one of the oldest as well.

What it references: A quote from the popular Star Fox 64 video game for the N64 console.

Your squadmate Peppy says this to you so you can avoid enemy attacks by pressing “Z” or “R” on the controller twice in succession.

This move made you temporarily invulnerable and would deflect attacks from oncoming enemies. You could dodge lasers, missiles, and even debris.

From this single phrase, it spawned a crazy amount of memes following the same formula. This line became an instant meme and you can easily find variations of it within other memes, like this for example:

Doing a barrel roll has taken over other memes and is now widely spammed.

Bonus: If you have a Chromebook, you can press “CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + Refresh” and you can make your Chromebook’s screen rotate no matter if you’re on Google’s search engine or not. Pretty cool that Google actually took the time to program this into Chrome OS. Awesome.

Smiling tabs (or winky tabs)

Chrome will show a hidden secret easter egg if you open 100 tabs.

To show off Chrome’s efficiency, they’ve coded in an emoticon when you open 100 tabs in the browser.

What it does: The tab icon button in your top navigation bar will switch into a smiley-face “:D” rather than the default tab icon.

How to do it: Open your browser and open 99 tabs. If you’re on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or Chromebook, you can spam “Ctrl + T” and quickly open them up. When you reach the 100th tab, watch the icon on your tab button change into a smiley.

What it references: Nothing, really. It’s just there to show off how Chrome is efficient enough to handle that many tabs simultaneously.

However, there’s a difference between blank new tabs and tabs that have something running, like YouTube. It also depends on your computer or phone’s specs, like CPU and RAM. Some users have reported that your browser will give you this signal when it knows you’ve been viewing the naughty stuff in incognito mode. It’s watching you. Everything.

But still, it’s pretty awesome that they coded this Easter egg within Chrome :D.

I don’t know if I’ve ever had more than 100 tabs open at the same time yet. That’ll probably bog down my machine like crazy.

Konami’s awesome color show presented by the Pixel

If you don’t know what Konami is, you probably don’t play games.

They’re one of the most popular companies known for their amazing arcade-style games. It’s apparent that some coders at Google dig Konami and have incorporated this into their Pixel Chromebook.

If you own one, you can trigger the lightbar to show a dazzle of colors. These colors are basically a light show that’ll show off the different colors the Pixel is capable of rendering.

It’s pretty awesome to watch, but you do need their laptop in order to trigger the event.

What it does: Makes the lightbar on your laptop go crazy.

How to do it: If you own a Pixel, press the following keys on your keyboard in any window:

“up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A”

And then watch your lightbar show off all these colors in reference to Konami’s old-school games. They were awesome.

If you don’t have a Pixel laptop, you can watch the following video to see it in action:

What it references: The colors are an effect used in many old-school Konami games.

The keyboard combination you punch is actually a popular cheat code in many Konami games (and even some other games), so it’s an Easter egg of itself.

It gave the player anything from a full set of power-ups (Gradius) to unlockables to all weapons to invincibility.

Even some websites use the code as well. As you can see, Konami is a legend to more than just Google. Their games were that amazing. Amazing enough to make a meme of them.

Make Chrome flip out

If you own an Android smartphone, you can make your browser do an awesome flip effect.

This is one of the coolest memes that I’ve found so far and probably my favorite. Out of all the stuff, you can find on the results page, this one is probably the nerdiest one.

What it references: StarCraft. It’s one of the most popular games ever made in the real-time strategy (RTS) genre and is still popular to this day, so it’s no surprise that they made an Easter egg out of it.

Players of the Zerg race would create their low-tier units as fast as possible and attack their enemies’ bases, in an attempt to defeat them before they got up and running.

The “GG” stands for “good game,” a common phrase used before and after a match as a sportsmanship demonstration. It wasn’t always used with any truth though behind it though, as it’s mainly just spammed now.

You usually say it when you beat your opponent at the end of a match, and it’s commonly used in across all genres of games- whether they’re FPS, MOBAs, or RTS games. It’s universally recognized and said as a sign of good sportsmanship and respect. But it’s often said without feeling and can also be used sarcastically.

Here’s a video of the Zerg rush attack on your Google search results:

Super Mario’s hidden block

For all the Mario fans, you know how Nintendo likes to hide coins in blocks and hidden blocks.

It’s a neat, secret Easter egg Google has hidden in their search results.

What it does: It hides a coin on Google’s search results and throws out a coin when clicked.

How to do it: Search for “super mario bros” and you’ll get a results card on the right-hand side of your screen. Click on the question mark box “?” and a coin will pop out.

Google has a hidden block on its search results. Can you find it?

What it references: Mario. If you’ve never played any Mario game with a coin block (hidden or not), you’ve been under a rock.

This is a very popular Easter egg not just with Chrome, but for many different devices, operating systems, websites, memes, and more.

The Mario Bros. series is one of the most-referenced games in existence. It only makes sense that there’s a Chrome Easter egg version of Mario somewhere.

It’s probably one of the most popular Easter eggs ever, so it only makes sense that Google would add it to Chrome OS. Many other popular websites reference the Mario game series because of the legendary status of it and a lot of nerds grew up with it as well (like me).

Festivus for the rest of us

Google will show a Festivus pole alongside your search results if you use this secret search keyword.

You can make a Festivus pole pop up in your search results.

What it does: Shows a graphic of a Festivus pole in your results.

How to do it: Search for “Festivus” on Google and look at your results. There’ll be a Festivus pole alongside the page.

What it references: It’s from an episode of Seinfeld (probably the best show in the world) where George Costanza’s father creates his own holiday called Festivus.

It’s pretty much a holiday where people sit down and talk about why they hate each other followed by the “Feats of Strength” where they fight each other. It’s now a holiday celebrated in real life because it’s become a cult phenomenon and takes place on February 23.

Could you repeat that? Recursively?

Google will show a recursion suggestion that recurs.

You can make Google repeat itself…until it reaches Google.

What it does: Google will repeat itself by asking you if you meant “recursion” if you type “recursion.”

How to do it: Go to Google’s homepage and type in “recursion” and watch as it suggests “did you mean recursion?” If you click it, it’ll just take you back to the same page as before.

What it references: Recursion means to repeat. So you’re basically recurring to the same page, recursively. It’s probably just a play on words. This one’s another nerdy one. And it’s cool.

Fully tilted

Tilt your screen with Google’s neat askew trick.

You can have Google tilt your screen and make your experience a little more…lopsided. It’s a Google easter egg.

What it does: Google will tilt your screen. That’s about it. It’s a neat little effect and makes it more awkwardly enjoyable. It looks like your computer screen is having issues.

How to do it: Go to Google and type in “askew” in the search results. Your screen will instantly tilt.

What it references: Probably nothing. Just the word itself. It’s a good joke to play on others.

Don’t forget your blink blink

Google’s search results will blink like stars.

This one’s pretty cool. It makes you whole screen blink with words.

What it does: When you perform a search, your results will start blinking.

How to do it: Go to Google and type in “<blink>” and watch your search results blink.

What it references: Not sure. You’d think the arrow signs would make it a reference to some movie or line of code, but it’s probably just to differentiate from all the searches that include the word “blink” so it won’t start blink for regular queries.

Update: It turns out that “blink” is an homage to a deprecated text element of HTML code that’s now rendered obsolete. It’s been removed from web standards and many browsers are dropping support for it.

If you visited a site with the Blink Element (<blink>), it would cause the text wrapped in the code to flash slowly. It was very annoying to read and had the potential to even cause seizures for those who are sensitive. It’s been removed for a reason. (Thanks bkttk2 for pointing this out!)

Chrome Dinosaur Run

The Chrome browser will let you play a dinosaur game when you’re offline to keep you from throwing your phone on the floor.

If you’re not connected to any network, your browser will display an error message with a small avatar of a dinosaur.

You can play a hidden dinosaur game when you’re offline. It works on any device with the browser.

What it does: It’s a minigame built into your web browser.

How to do it: If you’re on a laptop, disconnect from any network by turning off your WiFi connection.

If you’re on a desktop, do the same and unplug your ethernet if you’re plugged in. Launch your browser and watch it detect nothing. You’ll see the error message.

Now, press the spacebar, or click on the dinosaur, and you’ll get transported into a game instantly.

It’s an endless running game where you have to dodge obstacles and rack up a high score.

It’s pretty addicting and I found myself purposely disconnecting my Internet to play it, even though I don’ have the best connection and I get disconnected all the time automatically.

About Andy Z.

Andy is a casual-hardcore Chrome OS fan and contributes to the site regularly. He likes computers, tech, sports cars, videogames, and of course, Chromebooks. Thinker. Introvert. Geek. You can find him on Twitter (@platytech), or send him an email (platy@platypusplatypus.com).

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Big BOI

there is an easter egg on the crhrombook If you do the shortcut ctrl alt t then you will be in the OS devoloper shell (crosh). And then if you type help_advanced in crosh you can see mutiple things that you can do. Then if you want to customize your crosh you press ctrl shift p. Another thing that happens in crosh is that you do nothing it will do a barrel roll.

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chrome://dino/

You can also access the din o game at chrome://dino. If you don’t want it to get big, you can use chrome://dino/?embed=1

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16 days ago

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Aaron

SEARCH UP “Thanos” in google and click the infinity gauntlet

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7 months ago

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Sprinkles

ATARI BREAKOUT: 275 SCORE!

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Jiriah to doombringer

I thout it was cool, … but it stands no chance against my dark and dark !!!

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10 months ago

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AsPika

Type “Super Mario Bros” and the results was…. NOTHING? I think was removed…

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11 months ago

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Geuast

cool! do control alt t?

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1 year ago

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sdmf

searfch sonic the headgehog then click sonic

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1 year ago

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hello

what about bacon number? just type in ( actors name ) bacon number

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Guest

Just so you know, if you type in “the answer to life the universe and everything” it will say 42. If you type in “the answer to life the universe and everything plus the number of horns on a unicorn” it will say 43.
Also if you type in “anagram” it will say, Did you mean Nag a ram. If you type in “define anagram” it will say, Did you mean nerd fame again? Type “bletchley park“ and you will see on the right the words go through letters.

Hmm…that’s strange. It may have been removed since then. Supposedly, if you’re in the Camera app and caps lock is activated, typing “CRAZYPONY” will automatically launch the Files app to where you can choose a video and use these weird and crazy Instagram-like filters.

The Camera app has been updated multiple times since then, so they may have removed this Easter Egg. This was working before the Play Store on Chromebook era, where the app was updated constantly to support convertible and multiple camera input Chromebooks.

Regardless, thanks for pointing that out. I’ll have to take a look later.

Thanks again.

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1 year ago

GUEST

yes

If you search “Sonic the Hedgehog,” a small Sonic animation will come up in the same place as the Mario one.

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